Sometimes we need help to understand things, to sort things out, because we’re just operating on mental overload and can’t see it for ourselves.
From Cool Tools, this post, Finite and Infinite Games – How to live on a book by James P. Carse that sounds intriguing. And this brief excerpt:
“Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. Ignoring the issue of truth and falsehood altogether, they offer only vision. Storytelling is therefore not combative; it does not succeed or fail. A story cannot be obeyed. Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounding way of looking to an horizonal way of seeing.” (sec 78)
Finite and Infinite Games
A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James P. Carse
1986, 180 pages
$7
Ballantine Books
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